“When better singing is needed, their ears will have grown too heavy to hear the gentle sound of the music of the future.”

Original: Pan fydd eisiau gwell canu, bydd eu clustiau wedi trymhau gormod i glywed swn tyner miwsig y dyfodol. — A striking metaphor for becoming unable to hear the possibilities of a new age · Sermon, Cyfamod Duw a Dyn (Welsh)

• Change
• Music
• Time

“These rocks are full of wealth; they only need splitting. The Black Mountain, the Great Mountain and Betws Mountain are full of treasures; they only need striking.”

Original: Mae'r creigiau yma yn llawn cyfoeth, dim ond eu hollti. Mae'r mynydd du a'r mynydd mawr, a mynydd y Betws yn llawn trysorau, dim ond eu taro! — Finding hidden possibility and abundance within the surrounding landscape · Sermon, Cyfamod Duw a Dyn (Welsh)

• Hope
• Nature
• Work

“God's kingdom first, the kingdoms of the world second. Religion will not bear being mixed with such things; unless it is first, chief and foremost, it will do nothing at all.”

Original: Teyrnas Dduw yn gyntaf, teyrnasoedd y byd yn ail. Chymer crefydd ddim o'i chymysgu â phethau fel hyn, os na chaiff hi fod yn gyntaf, yn bennaf, ym mlaenaf, wna hi ddim o gwbl. — Arguing that genuine faith cannot merely be fitted around worldly priorities · Sermon, Ceisio Teyrnas Dduw, July 1886 (Welsh)

• Faith
• Truth